Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Apple removes 39,000 game apps from China store to meet deadline
By Pei Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day, as it set year-end as deadline for all game publishers to obtain a...
Dec 31, 2020
Take Five: Vaccine over virus (or Happy New Year)
1/COVID-19 IN '21 All hopes for next year - everything from stock market returns to restaurant bookings - are bound up with the view that vaccines will gradually restore normality to a pandemic-ravage...
Dec 31, 2020
Exclusive: Chinese regulators probe Ant Group’s equity investments – sources
By Julie Zhu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese regulators are reviewing equity investments held by Ant Group Co Ltd in dozens of companies, three people with knowledge of the matter said, intensifying a c...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. Census Bureau to miss year-end deadline for first set of 2020 numbers
(Reuters) - The U.S. Census Bureau will miss a year-end deadline to produce the population count used to divide seats in Congress between the states, it said on Wednesday. "We continue to process the ...
Dec 31, 2020
COVID-19 shook, rattled and rolled the global economy in 2020
By Dan Burns and Mark John (Reuters) - When 2020 dawned, the global economy had just notched its 10th straight year of uninterrupted growth, a streak most economists and government finance officials e...
Dec 31, 2020
Most prolific U.S. serial killer, who confessed to 93 murders, dies in California hospital
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Convicted murderer Samuel Little, who confessed to strangling 93 people and was considered by the FBI to be the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, die...
Dec 30, 2020
A divided United Kingdom exits EU orbit, heads into the Brexit unknown
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom exits the European Union's orbit on Thursday, turning its back on a tempestuous 48-year liaison with the European project for an uncertain Br...
Dec 30, 2020
China gives conditional approval for CNBG’s COVID-19 vaccine
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has given conditional approval for general public use to a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China National Biotec Group (CNBG), an official with China's National Medical Product...
Dec 30, 2020
U.S. accuses Ukrainians of using misappropriated funds for Ohio real estate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday accused Ukrainian tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky and another Ukrainian businessman of using misappropriated funds to buy real estate in Ohio, following ear...
Dec 30, 2020
U.S. demands release of Uighur doctor who family say is sentenced to 20 years
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States called on Wednesday for the release of a Uighur Muslim medical doctor who relatives say was sentenced to 20 years jail in China because of family members' huma...
Dec 30, 2020
